Race Fixtures 2018

The Scottish Atheletics website has an extensive list of events taking place all over Scotland in 2017. Please click on the link Scottish Athletics to be taken to their events page.

Run-4-It Proms 3K
winter series final race has been postponed due to the
weather, also due to unforseen circumstances, the race will
now go ahead on Friday March 16th
at 1:00pm. All proceeds to go to Clic Sergeant, so donations
welcome

The Beach Esplanade, Aberdeen

The First Friday of The Month October to
March

Races starts at 1:00pm

October 6th,
November 3rd,
December 1st,
January 5th 2018, February 2nd,
March 2nd,

Entry
Fee : £2.00 Per Race (must register at each race)

**SAME NUMBER SHOULD BE KEPT FOR THE
SERIES**

Entries taken on the day only
100 Metres North of the Beach Leisure Centre.

Metro Aberdeen 5K Handicap races
Hazlehead

Well done to all those who took part in
the Nucore Metro Aberdeen Beach 10k. There were 360
finishers in what was a very wet evening, with the run made
possible with the kind assistance of many volunteers. A
special mention has to be made to those runners who
travelled from further afield to compete, including
Inverness and Glasgow. Winner was Michael O'Donnell from
Inverness in a time of 32:47, with the women’s title a dead
heat between AAC’s Nicola Gauld and Metro’s own London
Marathon team British Champion member Fiona Brian, with both
given a time of 35:20. All in all a very successful evening
was had by all, we look forward to next year’s event.

Metro Aberdeen Beach Fun Run

Well done to all those who took part in
the Nucore Metro Aberdeen Beach 10k. There were 360
finishers in what was a very wet evening, with the run made
possible with the kind assistance of many volunteers. A
special mention has to be made to those runners who
travelled from further afield to compete, including
Inverness and Glasgow. Winner was Michael O'Donnell from
Inverness in a time of 32:47, with the women’s title a dead
heat between AAC’s Nicola Gauld and Metro’s own London
Marathon team British Champion member Fiona Brian, with both
given a time of 35:20. All in all a very successful evening
was had by all, we look forward to next year’s event.

Brian Goodwin 10km

Metro Aberdeen’s
Kayleigh Jarrett produced the best 10km performance of her career for second in
the women’s division of the Brian Goodwin 10km in Glasgow. The north-east
athlete recorded 36min 43sec to finish 15sec behind Kilbarchan AAC’s Elspeth
Curran. Callum Hawkins (Kilbarchan AAC) slashed more than a minute off the
previous course record to win in 29:14.

Muddy Metro Marvels rise to
the CETCO Ythan Challenge

Jim Tole
scored an impressive victory in the CETCO Ythan Challenge adventure race at
Ellon despite having competed in a long distance cycling event less than 24
hours earlier.

The Metro Aberdeen
runner took part in the Dinnaedo 100-mile cycle sportive which started and
finished in Stonehaven and took in 8,100ft of climbing as it followed a route
which went over the Cairn o’Mount twice.

Tole said:
“My legs were a bit heavy although I was probably helped by the fact that I took
a wrong turn during the cycle race and ended up doing only 77 miles. If I’d done
the entire 100 miles that might have made been too much.”

The veteran
athlete showed few signs of fatigue as he completed the 11km Ellon course, which
took in a tour of the Esslemont estate and a run out and back along the Ythan
valley, in 54min 23sec.

Along the
way, he and the other 359 competitors had to negotiate a series of obstacles
including wooden climbing frames, towering straw bales, mud pits, near vertical
slippery slopes and a river crossing.

Tole took it
all in his stride but admitted it was a tougher challenge than he expected.

He said: “I
held back a little at the start while the guy who eventually finished second set
off very quickly. I kept him in my sights but didn’t make any attempt to catch
him until we entered the main trail section through the Esslemont estate.

“I was able
to pick him off when we hit some of the hills and we ran together for a while
before I pulled away.

“The slippery
slope at the finish was tricky until I realised there was a rope running
alongside it which I was able to use to haul myself up. It’s just as well it
wasn’t a close race at that point otherwise it might have ended up differently.

“This is the
first time I’ve done the race and it was much harder than I expected. I thought
it was just going to be like a cross-country run.

“Now that I
know what’s involved, I reckon I’d train harder for it next year.

“I’m pleased
to win as I’m just coming back from injury. Now I’m focussing on the Great
Aberdeen Run half marathon in August.”

World 50km Trail Running Championships

Metro Aberdeen ’s
Kyle Greig made a fine debut for Great Britain by finishing a creditable 26th
from a field of 239 in the world 50km trail running championships at Bada
Prataglia in Tuscany. Spain’s
Alberto Hernado won by completing the Foreste Casentinesi course in 4:23:31,
with his compatriot Cristofer Clemente taking silver in 4:24:31. French athlete
Cedric Fleureton collected bronze in 4:28:03.

Greig was
40th after the opening 9km but worked his way steadily through the field to
occupy a top 20 spot by 39km.

The
31-year-old Alford-based runner slipped back in the final 11km, losing six
places, but finished as the leading Briton.

He said: “It
was tougher than I expected. I was nervous, this being my first Great Britain
appearance, so I just wanted to do well and justify my selection. I am over the
moon with 26th place.”